City of Bloomington, Indiana Utilities Service Board, 3 Aug 2020

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Okay, I have that it's five o'clock, so I'm going to uh call this august 3rd.

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Meeting of the utility services board to order and.

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First, item on the agenda is approval of the.

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Minutes of the previous meeting and were there any uh changes or.

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Comments regarding the minutes.

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Okay, I actually actually had one, and that was.

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uh Find it here.

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uh In approving the um uh on.

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Page two uh in approving the refunds customer.

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Refunds, uh it states that kepler asked about a.

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954.32 refund to centerstone for a leak and.

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Wanted clarification on why it was issued for water and not.

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Waste water- I just want to clarify that I was asking.

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Why that refund was issued for water since we're not typically allowed to.

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Refund on a water bill, so I just wanted to make that one.

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Correction, um were there any other modifications to.

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The minutes from last meeting, okay and seeing none is there.

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A motion to approve the minutes with that.

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Second, all right and electronic: can you please call the roll.

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Sermon? Yes, kepler, yes, burnham! Yes,.

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Commenter, yes, panic, yes, demon! Yes,.

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Okay minutes are approved. uh Next up are standard invoices uh in the amount.

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162.11, are there any questions about the.

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Standard invoices or comments seeing none is there a motion to approve.

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The standard invoices I'll move second.

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Latrina, please call the roll arm in there.

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Yes, burnham, yes, panic, yes, kepler.

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Yes, eamon, yes, sherman, yes, okay,.

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Invoices are approved next up are utility bills in the amount of 6932.75.

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uh Any questions on utility bills, seeing none is there a motion to approve.

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Second and latrina panic, yes,.

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Promiser, yes, sherman, yes, eamonn! Yes,.

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Burnham, yes, kepler. Yes, all right, utility bills are approved.

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Next up are wire transfers in the amount of 360.

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Thousand one hundred and fifty seven dollars and twenty one cents uh any questions on wire transfers. All.

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Right see, none is there a motion to approve wire transfers, no move. Second uh latrina. Please call the roll.

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Eamonn, yes, burnham, yes, bannock! Yes,.

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Sherman, yes, appler, yes parameter! Yes,.

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Okay, wire transfers are approved. uh Next up is the.

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Approval of the consent agenda and I'll turn this over to vic.

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Oh make your you're muted.

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There you go every time good evening, everyone um I'm pleased to.

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Present tonight's consent agenda. We have several items all.

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Totaling, six thousand six nine hundred sixty one.

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Dollars the first is to suez analytical.

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Instruments: eight thousand six hundred sixty one dollars: fifteen cents for an organic carbon analyzer.

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Presidio infrastructure systems, thirteen thousand three hundred three dollars.

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Eighty-Five cents for security, camera repairs at the service center.

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Mitchell and stark for five thousand dollars for installation of a piping.

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Section on the belt pressed at blucher pool.

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Johnson control fire protection, uh eight thousand dollars per year.

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That's on call protection services and then another fifty eight hundred.

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Eight dollars for annual fire inspection of all the sites.

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uh That cbu has toric engineering for eleven thousand one hundred. Eighty eight.

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Dollars for repair and installation of the cellular connection.

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uh At our west booster station and the last to frakes engineering for fifteen.

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Thousand dollars a year, that's for on-call engineering services.

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uh Does any board member wish to hear any of these items separately from the.

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Others hearing none if there's no opposition.

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The consent agenda will be approved, as recommended by staff.

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I hear no opposition, so the consent agenda is approved.

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Thanks so much. Thank you. Big uh next item is an update on the lake.

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Monroe watershed watershed management plan and we're.

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Going to hear from maggie sullivan hi maggie, thank you.

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Hopefully, you all got to look at the document I included in the packet, but.

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For the benefit of the public, I'll just run through very briefly.

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Our big focus has been starting our water sampling program.

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So we've been sampling the three major streams that flow into lake monroe.

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uh North fork, middle fork and south fork of salt creek.

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Along with crooked creek and then the tail waters of the lake.

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That started in april and will continue monthly for a year.

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We've been collecting samples at three points in the lake.

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Starting in may and that'll continue through september.

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Every month and then our big project that we're gearing up to.

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Is we'll be doing what we call our watershed? Sampling, blitz.

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On friday september, 18th we're hoping to get about a hundred volunteers to come.

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Out and collect water samples from 125 sites.

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uh Smaller streams throughout the watershed, so we're really excited about.

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That we've got about 40 volunteers signed up so far. I'm hopeful we'll get a.

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Few from iu once they're back in session as well.

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And then you guys are probably more aware than I am.

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That cbu is doing some additional storm team sampling.

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Last I heard they've been out twice. They probably have been out again.

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Since then, I don't know baker, james might be able to speak to that.

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He's not we didn't go out this weekend. Okay,.

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But we're really excited to see that data, because that'll give us a really.

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Good feel for how things change when there's a big storm event, we're pretty sure, there's a lot more sediment that moves through.

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And that'll be really useful information as we're doing modeling to try to see.

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What's coming into the lake, there's also a project going on in brown.

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County, the brown county regional sewer district is doing a bunch of sampling. Looking for e coli they're looking in the lake.

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Monroe watershed and the bean blossom watershed and they're going to be doing source analysis as well to try and identify.

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If the source is human or cow or horse or.

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Wild creatures, so that'll be really good information that we hope to have.

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Later this fall.

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A lot of our outreach has been challenging with the pandemic, going on.

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But I am very excited that we got approval to put up signs that say entering the lake monroe watershed at eight spots in.

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Monroe county and we'll be working on getting additional signs put in in brown county and in jackson, county.

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Sorry about that, um so that's the big things going on right.

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Now- and we are looking at how we can do.

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Work with schools, this fall is really a big question mark, as we.

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Figure out, what's going on with that um and yeah, so I'm happy to answer any.

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Questions anybody has, but I just really wanted to touch base.

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And let you know what's going on amanda, did you have a question.

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Yeah I had a question. I was looking through the materials I you said, you're.

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Still, looking for volunteers, how do volunteers get involved.

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So it's friends of lakemonrow.org we've got a lot of information up there.

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Including a google sign up sheet, so this is actually it's co-run.

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Between friends of lake monroe and the iu limnology lab.

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And so they're doing a lot of the logistics, but there's a spot there with.

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A bunch of information for anyone who wants to sign up so www dot monroe and yes, thank you for spreading the word.

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Yeah and um just follow up on that maggie.

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Are we just should we be advertising this on social media.

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And such to send volunteers that way: okay.

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All you want that would be great and jeff. You had a.

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Comment or question yeah well, this has been advertised in the in our local.

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Excuse me, local newspaper, um so I've seen that that's great.

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um I was wondering about the status of it was either a gaging station.

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Excuse me, a little peanut bit is stuck in my throat.

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That's what I get for snacking. um uh We either contributed to a gauging station.

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Or a flow monitoring device, uh maybe fifteen thousand dollars.

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Something like that, a few months back, I was wondering what the status of that is.

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So the gauging station was installed near kurtz.

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On the south fork of the salt creek that went in in january, so we've had.

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Continuous flow measurements since then, and that is where the storm.

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Team, the cbu storm team is collecting samples when they go out so we'll be able to correlate those results to the flow we had originally hoped to get. What's.

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Called a super gauge which actually does chemistry measurements, in addition to.

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Flow measurements, um we did we're not able to do that. It was a.

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Much larger funding requirement than what we could pull together.

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And so that's part of the reason the storm team is collecting these samples.

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And getting them analyzed will complement that information. It's.

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Not doesn't quite substitute but it'll, give.

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Us some of that information for modeling purposes.

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um And then the usgs is working they're, the ones who run the stream gage.

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On a regression curve so that we can use the data from kurtz.

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To also know, what's happening at mommy a little bit further downstream.

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uh They didn't want to put a gauge in at mommy because it often gets to be.

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Backwater from the lake, if there's a big impoundment that that.

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Part of the stream actually stops flowing, and so the curse is far enough away that it won't be affected.

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By uh high lake levels, but we are doing a lot of sampling at mommy, because it's.

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uh More accessible and it catches more of the streams coming in so it gives a better idea of what's.

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Really going into the lake does that answer all your questions.

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Absolutely thank you for the update as well.

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Yeah I can vouch for the high turbidity and the storm events.

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At kurtz I actually drove over there on sunday morning.

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And uh it was because we were getting information from the gauge that it was.

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Really high, so it was, uh I went by I've got some pictures. I.

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Took so it was the highest I've seen it and yeah sherry got some video right.

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After this station was put in in january, and it's almost unbelievable how much water moves through there and definitely some.

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Turbidity going on yeah a lot.

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Any other uh questions or comments for maggie. I had just one. um I.

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Know that there there's been concern about.

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The dnr forestry project and part of the watershed that is going.

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To include some uh logging and some burns.

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uh Controlled burns, and I can't remember when.

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That was actually supposed to get started, but.

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Are there any updates on you know any potential effects on.

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Our watershed and uh sampling that will be catching any.

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Changes from that, so I think the project you're talking.

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About is the houston south um proposed logging and that's not it.

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Hasn't been a, uh there are several court cases in.

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Process for that right now, and so I believe it's.

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On hold, I'm not 100 sure, but they had not projected to start.

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For a while, yet uh we've looked into trying to do some.

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Additional sampling in that area, but I don't think the.

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Timing is going to work out with this project.

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It's definitely something friends of lake monroe is keeping an eye on.

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And, as I said, there's a court case in place trying the.

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Trying to stop that project, and so that's still winding its way through.

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Yeah, okay, see what happens. Okay, those are federal lands. That's that's! The u.s.

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Forest service not correct yeah, I'm sorry, not dnr. It's.

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uh U.S forest service hoosier national forest, ah thanks for the clarification all.

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Right excellent: well, thank you very much for the update. um That's really helpful and and we'll.

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Get the word out for uh getting volunteers. I might actually.

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Look at that myself great, so thank you so much all.

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Right, thank you all right. um Next up, we've got.

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A request for approval uh by resolution on the debt incursion.

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By the lake lemon conservancy district for the dredging project and.

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Adam casey is going to talk with us about this.

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Hello, everybody, um if you don't know me, I'm adam casey, with uh lake clemon.

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District manager out here, I also have patricia zellmer.

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um On the call she's, our bond council of ice miller.

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With turbidity being an issue with all the lakes around here, we have had.

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In-House dredging operations since 2008, we remove about 10 to 12 000 cubic.

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Yards per year of sediment with our drudging operation.

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We've noticed that we really need to kind of step up.

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By really an order of magnitude on sediment removal, so we've been working.

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On a sediment management project that will be utilizing hydraulic.

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Dredging in the eastern bay, where bean blossom creek comes into the lake.

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We're looking at a bond issue to finance this, which will be capped at 12.2.

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Million dollars um the hydraulic driving will take place.

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In the delta and we'll actually be using two disposal sites, potentially on south shore drive, one of the disposal sites is a piece of.

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Property that we recently purchased last fall a 14 acre piece.

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And we'll be creating a seven acre disposal site on that.

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The permitting is already in for that. We also have potential permit to utilize an.

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Overflow pond and actually plant it to create a treatment wetland.

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I don't believe we'll need to use the pond and create the wetland for this.

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Round but we are hoping to remove up to 120.

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000 cubic yards of sediment with this project so about a.

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10 to 12 years worth of work now per our contract with the city of.

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Bloomington utilities, our 50-year lease we do need to get approval to incur any.

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Significant debt and start any substantial projects.

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This bond would be funded from our special benefits tax.

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It would not be any type of lien on property that the cbu owns or any of the.

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Lake lemon properties- I do have patricia zellmer. If I have any.

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More questions directly with the bonding or if we have questions about the.

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Project I'm happy to help. Part of this project will also be.

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Opening up utilizing our current dredging operation.

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Past flow paths and the bean blossom delta, so we do have these high.

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Sediment laden flows, we can actually spread them out through the existing.

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Delta and enhance the capture capability of the delta there. Okay great, are there any questions.

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For adam about this project, yes jeff, to see you.

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Again, um my questions for chris wheeler.

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And I'm wondering what, if any exposure we have.

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uh For this project, none whatsoever.

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That's what I wanted to hear. Thank you.

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Any other questions or comments, okay, so my understanding is that.

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uh We need a motion for approval of this debt incursion.

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uh Is that correct, correct, okay? uh Is there.

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Such a motion to move second and latrina, please uh call the roll.

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Kepler, yes, sermon, yes, eamon! Yes,.

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Burnham, yes carmen sir, yes bannock. Yes,.

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All right that is approved. Thank you very much.

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Adam all right, thank you very much and maggie I'll look forward to some of that.

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Source collection dad in the bean blossom creek, we should uh stay in touch.

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About that, but thank you everybody and have a good day. Thank you. Everyone thanks! So much. Okay,.

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Next item item number: seven request for approval.

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Of a second amendment to the agreement with donna donahue.

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And associates uh on the jordan culvert reconstruction.

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Project and uh jane fleek is gonna, speak with us about this.

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Jane, uh yes, thank you. Yes, this is the second amendment.

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For our contract with donahue and associates for the jordan culvert.

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Project we've been working on this since 2013, so.

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I can't say that I'm surprised to see a couple of amendments come in for their.

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Contract, this is in the total amount of thirty nine thousand nine hundred.

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Dollars, that is, for utility coordination, some.

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Additional coordination, with primarily the two other large public.

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Utilities, duke and veteran have taken.

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Sorry, duke and at t have taken quite some time.

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For our utility coordination there's also.

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Additional right-of-way and easement research that's necessary.

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And vectran is prepared to do their relocation, but they've asked for a.

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Little bit of staking to be done in advance of the project, so that.

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Includes about thirty three hundred dollars for.

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Our uh consulting engineer to stake right away.

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For veterans so that they can get started, it also includes some construction services that will happen once we.

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Put the project out to bid that's for review of shop drawings. This is a.

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Complicated project so review shop, drawings answering.

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Questions and they've just estimated an amount of time for that.

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It will only be paying for the actual build time whatever they put in. We will.

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Pay for up to this maximum amount. So again it's.

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A contract amendment for thirty nine thousand nine hundred dollars and I would like to see your approval.

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Thank you. Thank you, jane. Are there any.

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Questions for jane or comments all right scene, oh.

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Jeff, yes, um how is the utility coordination going.

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After getting our um our extra layer of attorney.

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uh On this, uh I I I remember that we we hired on someone.

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uh In addition to chris, and I'm wondering if that.

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um Helped move things along any.

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I'll, let chris answer that hi chris wheeler with city legal, yes,.

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We are under contract with denton's green bomb.

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Out of indianapolis and more specifically, dave mcgimsey.

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To do some additional research and put together a.

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Letter that will be issued to duke for them to reconsider their position.

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We had a meeting with the attorneys at dentons about a week and a half ago.

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Two weeks now, maybe um and and several members of our staff at.

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Cbu, um in addition to a representative.

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From the engineering consulting firm, that is the subject of our.

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Our second amendment here to go through in very specific detail.

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All of the issues that we have identified.

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With duke as needing to be relocated so that these attorneys would understand.

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And appreciate everything that needs to be accomplished.

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And then went through the timeline so that they could see.

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How we got to where we are after that meeting, then I had meetings with the.

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Attorneys individually, just the attorneys to discuss in greater.

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Detail the logistics and the legalities of what we're dealing with.

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Make sure we're all on the same page, that letter I'm anticipating to see.

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This week in draft form, so that we can make sure that it reads well before it.

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Goes out that's kind of where we are right now.

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So that would be the first point of interaction by mcgimpsy into the process.

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With duke yes, that's correct, okay, well, fingers crossed there.

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Thank you yeah, so it's gonna, it's gonna, try and put.

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Some onus on them with regards to the burdens that they're going to create.

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For us, if they don't relocate, we're going to go ahead and issue bids.

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For the project, jane is working on that right now,.

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To get the bid packet out with um with uh donahue to get that out.

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So that uh we can go ahead and get under contract and be ready to move.

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And that, hopefully, will put some burden on duke to.

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Feel compelled to do something.

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Thank you, sorry, jane.

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It is what it is. I, okay, any other questions for jane.

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Okay, see none, then. Is there a motion to approve the second amendment.

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To this agreement shall move second and latrina. Please.

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Call the rule commenter.

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Yes, okay. The second amendment is approved next up request for approval.

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Of a first amendment to the agreement with utility financial solutions, llc on the water rate case and cost of.

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Service study test date, change and laura pettit is going to talk.

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With us hi good evening, so we have been working.

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With two companies, one of them is utility financial solutions on the water utility cost of service study.

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And rate case we had planned to bring that to the.

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Board then, to council then to the iurc um this summer it got postponed due to.

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Coven, so when we looked at uh postponing it.

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And to the beginning of next year we realized that we were going to have to adjust our test year. uh The original.

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Test year was going to be the calendar year of 2019.

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uh Now we're pushing it up from um march to.

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April 1st of 2019 to march 30th, 31st of 2020 gosh, sorry.

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um So that's going to require additional calculations from ufs.

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To to do that, update and recalculate the cost of service.

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Study? Okay, thank you. uh Any questions or.

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Comments: okay, see, none. Is there a motion to.

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Approve this amendment to this agreement with utility financial solutions and latrina, please call the roll panic.

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Yes, parmenter, yes, burnham, yes, human.

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Yes, yes, chairman, yes, okay,.

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That amendment is approved. Thank you. uh Next, we have a request for approval.

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Of a first amendment to the agreement with crow, lls llc for the water rate case and the coss test.

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Date, change and laura hello. Thank you so similar to ufs.

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We are engaged with crowe to work on the cost of service study and rate case for.

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The water utility crow is the manager of the project.

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Utility financial solution is calculating the actual cost of.

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Service study, so this amendment is to again.

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Update the test year um and the come up uh with the new rate case for.

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For the water utility rate case, sorry, I'm babbling.

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Did you have any questions thanks, laura any questions.

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All right see, none uh is there a motion for.

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Approval of this amendment to the agreement with crow llc.

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So move second and latrina eamonn.

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I'm sorry there you go. Thank you.

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Yeah tapler, yes, our mentor. Yes, chairman.

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Yes, burnham, yes, okay, that amendment is approved.

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Item 10 on our agenda is being removed because it's not quite ready for.

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Consideration yet so I'm sure we'll see that in the future.

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uh Item 11 request for approval of agreement with hatch company.

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For an installation of water information management, software and james hall will.

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Tell us about that hi! Thank you. James hall, cbu.

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Environmental, um the hawk company.

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Calls it a whim system. Some of you may have heard of a limbs, a laboratory in.

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Their integrated management system- that's basically what this is um we're going to integrate all three of our plants.

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In including the service center so we're going to create we're buying a database.

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That will integrate all the laboratory information that we either.

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Are doing in our laboratories or have a third party lab doing.

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um And so it will bring in all that information, and it also.

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Will interact with our scada system to pull data from.

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The scada system to generate our regulatory compliance reports.

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And if you have any questions, okay, any questions, jeff yeah, what's the opera.

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What's the maintenance cost on this, I mean I see this in original outlay and I I'm assuming some of its.

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Consulting work to get us up and running, uh I'm just wondering: what's the dollar.

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Amount every year after this, uh it includes three years.

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In that cost we went ahead and did that I'm trying to get down.

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To the contract, to do it, it's around three to five thousand dollars.

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Yeah so 5200 roughly per year. Okay, thank you.

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Okay, thank you any other questions for james.

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All right see, none uh is there a motion to.

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Approve this agreement, no move. Second and latrina, can you please call.

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The role mentor- yes, eamon.

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Yes, kepler.

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All right that agreement's approved, thank you.

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Next, up is uh old business, any old business from the board, our old.

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Business yeah, I mean I wanted to ask a question.

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About this uh uh removal, I mean this is old business.

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Remove the removal of the incinerator building, I.

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Mean maybe my my well, my memory isn't that good, but I.

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I think I remember that that um someone else was gonna pay.

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For this removal, so, or would we be, was that.

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Correct and we're getting reimbursed for this when this comes forward.

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Yes, okay, good! Thank you! Okay, thank you uh and any old business.

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From staff follow up, okay, uh any new business from.

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The board and new business from staff, no I've seen.

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None then uh subcommittee reports and I know.

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The finance uh committee met and vic, I think you're.

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Gonna talk with us about the budget.

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uh Yes, we presented our uh have presented our 2021 budget to the.

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Subcommittee, we met with them two weeks ago and then again.

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Today, uh to uh to discuss the budget uh outline.

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All the board members have received a copy of the.

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um Budget memorandum to the mayor- that's also.

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Commute our communication to the to the council.

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uh So uh I've got a short presentation. I hope it's short uh presentation to to.

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Hit on the high points and talk about our goals for the coming year,.

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And uh then I'm happy to take any questions.

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And here we go, and this is supposed to work.

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Did it come up? Yes, it's amazing. Okay,.

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As I said, this is our budget presentation for the.

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For the coming year, 2021. uh we this budget is very similar to the.

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Budgets for the for this year uh and we'll talk about.

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What our, what our real objectives are, what our goals are right now and where we are financially as well.

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um That didn't do anything there. We go. uh As you all know, the city of.

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Bloomington utilities exists to provide safe and sustainable water wastewater.

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Storm water services in an economical manner, providing prosperity and quality of life in our community.

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Our our objective overall is to be recognized as the finest.

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Municipal water utility in indiana, uh and I think we make progress on those.

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Goals every year- and uh I think this uh picture you're.

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Looking at here reinforces that this is what our basins.

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Look like this year, uh as as we started using a chemical.

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Algaecide uh to to uh to improve operations at the.

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Monroe plant, it looks great um at this time. Cbu has.

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164 full-time and 19 hourly employees uh they operate.

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All three of our utilities, with six interconnected divisions.

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On the waterworks we have 25 299 active accounts.

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We operate the monroe water treatment, plant 420 miles of water means.

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3064 fire hydrants, uh the sewer works, has 22.

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574 connections, two treatment plants, 321 miles of collection, mains and.

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uh 8 400 manholes and the storm water utility has.

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101 miles of pipe and ditches and um around 5700 storm inlet. So it's a.

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Sizable operation, that of both buried.

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Infrastructure and operational facilities that we.

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Operate in 2021, our major initiatives are to continue our.

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Improvements for water quality to replace water.

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Continue our water main replacement program for water.

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uh To do uh some major investments in stormwater infrastructure, those are all.

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Going to uh those are ongoing, but we're really.

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Going to be taking on some big stuff in 21.

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Modernizing cbu's internal processes uh taking uh steps towards improving our.

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Carbon footprint and climate action and then.

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All as always to work on improving the economic sustainability of the utility.

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uh For the last, this is our second or third year that we've talked about the.

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Effective utility management framework, uh this was developed by the awwa and.

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The epa and other organizations, basically.

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Our operations are divided into 10 activity areas. Those would be the.

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Little pizza wedges uh inside the wheel on the.

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Picture here, product quality, operational, optimization.

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Employee and leadership, development, financial viability, infrastructures.

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Infrastructure strategy and performance enterprise, resiliency customer.

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Satisfaction, stakeholder understanding and support.

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Water resource sustainability and community sustainability uh for.

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The purpose of this presentation to manage the time.

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uh We're only going to talk about the the first five of these areas in detail.

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The rest of them are discussed in the memo.

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Product quality, the activities description.

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In general is produce fit for purpose, water and other recalibured.

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Resources such as energy nutrients, biosolids.

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That meet or exceed full compliance with regulatory and reliability requirements.

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Consistent with customer public health, ecological.

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And economic needs, this is broken up into each of our different utilities. We.

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Have different goals in each utility at the waterworks.

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When we talk about water quality, obviously we're talking.

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About meeting or exceeding all the standards for water.

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Quality uh once again, we're going through another year, where we're having uh very little trouble with taste and.

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Odor complaints, uh the water tastes good all the time uh for the last several.

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Years since we started feeding activated carbon, uh but we do uh uh have the thing that we've had to deal with the most.

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In recent years uh is our program for reducing.

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uh Disinfection byproducts and our goal is 50 parts per billion for.

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Trihalomethanes uh 40 parts per billion for total halo.

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Acetic acids, which are each of those, is around two-thirds.

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Of the regulatory standard, uh as you see from the graphs we've made.

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A lot of progress in recent years and some some of the.

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Improvements we've made at monroe this year.

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uh We're we've really got uh this. We feel like we've got this.

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uh In in control, so it's been great work by all the operators and staff.

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uh In our operations, divisions on the sewer works side, uh our our.

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Treatment plant will operate 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.

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Just as always, without violating our npds.

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Discharge permits at blue cherpool, one of our big uh product.

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Quality goals is to complete a local limit study.

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uh For the water, the sewer shed that feeds the blue chapool plant.

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uh Right now we have an industrial discharge program.

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Only for the uh the dillman road wastewater plant.

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uh Blucher pool uh there's a significant development going on in that basin.

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Especially now that we're going to be sending flow from the new hospital there, so we're going to be taking this first step.

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Towards uh building industrial pre-treatment program for the for that northern basin, as well.

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Storm water quality uh is a very high priority for us.

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And one of the big efforts- that's actually beginning this year, we'll.

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Finish next year uh will be the development of the stormwater master plan. This is going to cost around 200 thousand dollars.

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We'll be soliciting stakeholder participation throughout.

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Our storm water system and we'll be looking for the best ways we can find.

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uh To improve stormwater quality and get every all of our.

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Stakeholders to participate with us in doing so.

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This will improve stormwater quality, both in the city and downstream.

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And we expect to be doing significant investments in green stormwater.

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Infrastructure uh as a result of the master plan and as.

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We work through it.

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uh For operational optimization, I don't think I need to read all the words in.

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That big long description, but uh basically we're trying to use as.

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Little resources, as we possibly can, uh and to.

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Make uh smart data-driven decisions when.

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We're uh operating our facilities. uh This is a.

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Place where a lot of the uh the green initiatives.

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Turn out to to land, because everything we do requires moving water around.

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Water's heavy moving it up and down hills is expensive and takes a lot of.

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Energy, so when we talk about anything, we talk.

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About in in terms of operational, optimization.

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Implicitly affects the carbon footprint of the city and the.

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Cbu uh for all the utilities, we're going to be.

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uh Continuing uh developing analytical tools uh to help.

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Us do uh faster, data-driven decisions, a lot of.

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This work is being done uh has uh by uh is being led by people.

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In our admin division, uh particularly our.

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Data analyst position that opened this year.

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And also by several teams that are working on a number of different.

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Efforts, for example, the uh the main break analysis team, we're also.

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Going to be working to expand the asset management program, that's.

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Being built up this year to for the linear infrastructure,.

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We'll be adding in the three treatment plants next year, so this is going to allow us to manage.

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Maintenance schedules and track inventory more effectively.

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Also on the sewer works for operational, optimization.

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By the end of the first quarter, 2021 we'll complete.

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All the upgrades to laboratory equipment.

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Right now, our ability to monitor dissolved, metals.

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Is not as good as we'd want it to be so we'll be able to.

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By upgrading that equipment we'll be able to.

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We'll have a lower detection limit, we'll be able to track things at lower.

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Concentrations, we'll also be able to test for metals that we currently can't test for in-house, also by the second quarter next year, we'll be adding.

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uh Cloud and mobile tracking software for.

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Sewage waste haulers uh right now our waste haulers.

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uh uh Are not are, basically, they buy tickets and they don't.

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um We're going to be working to develop a preferred pumper program.

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That will help us reduce the amount of paperwork uh and.

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And also improve our our tracking of the dumping of hall waste into the.

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Into the domain for employee and leadership, development.

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Across the whole organization, our goal is to recruit, develop and.

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Retain a workforce that is competent, motivated.

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Adaptive and safety focused- this has been a really high priority for us.

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Ever since um ever since I arrived here in 2015.

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And uh we've managed to improve uh getting everybody.

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Who needs to be licensed licensed, especially in tnd and we've also.

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Just been able to expand the amount of training we do overall for safety.

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And and all the other professional development.

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Activities that we do.

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Again this year, as the mayor is requested,.

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We plan to invest one and a half percent of our personnel division.

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Budget in each division for professional training, development.

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This includes the operator training that helps new employees, get their licenses.

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Within a year of the day, they were hired also, we are we'll be continuing in 2021.

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To assure that every work crew every work site has at least one team member.

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Who is cpr certified at all times uh and in 2021 we will.

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uh Engage the senior cpu leadership and value stream mapping.

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uh To uh and we'll map four of our operational processes.

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And the goal here is to identify and remove waste.

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And to improve our standard operating procedure, documentation throughout the.

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The financial viability, uh the objective is to understand and plan for.

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The full life cycle, cost of utility operations and water resources and.

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A lot of the things we've been working on uh this year.

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uh And some of them been delayed by covet.

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Are things like the asset management system and.

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The the approved scada system and the improved uh laboratory information.

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System, all of these things come together to.

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Help us reduce our life cycle, cost and act more effectively.

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And more proactively, as time goes on.

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We will be using our asset management system to do an audit.

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Of our linear infrastructure, that's the water distribution.

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System and the sewer collection system for all those capital assets in 2021.

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We're also going to competitively bid and award contracts for external.

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Laboratory services this will ensure we have competitive.

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Pricing and we'll set up the procedures for.

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Doing automated entry of data test results into the laboratory.

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Information management system that you all just bought a few minutes ago.

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Also under financial viability, uh something else we.

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We also have been talking about tonight already is the cost of service study and.

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The rate review for the waterworks, uh we will bring a rate case to council.

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In the first quarter, 2021 and obviously to you as well, uh and that.

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Once it's approved by council that will go to the indiana utilities, regulatory.

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Commission, uh with an expectation that any water.

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Rate increases would be implemented in early 2022.

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Infrastructure strategy and performance, another area that we've been.

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Very aggressive about this is maintaining and enhancing the condition.

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Of all the assets over the long term at the lowest possible life cycle, cost.

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And with acceptable risk consistent with customer community and regulatory approved service levels,.

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And on the water side, what that means in a large part.

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Is the uh water main replacement program that we've been doing since 2017.

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We spend 1.7 million dollars per year on water main replacements. We and.

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Typically, we replace about two and a half miles of water.

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Mains, uh depending on revenue uh and the.

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Timing of revenue uh next year, uh we expect to do most of.

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That work in-house in order to save costs but up to 1.7.

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Million dollars would be what we hope to spend next year on that.

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Also by the end of the third quarter, 2021.

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In anticipation of the new lead and copper rule, we will be identifying all.

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The lead service lines in our system, we anticipate it- will take three to.

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Fifteen years, depending on what we find out there to replace all.

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The remaining lead service lines the monroe plant will complete uh the.

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Roof replacement for the main building by the third quarter of 2021, and we have.

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About 4.4 million dollars in additional projects.

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uh Especially uh the installation of the belt press.

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At the water plant and the coating of the.

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Of the east tank those projects, we hope to.

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Complete in 2021 again, depending on how the revenues come down.

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On the sewer works, uh we anticipate being 70 percent, complete.

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uh With the 23 million dollar, modernization capacity, improvement.

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Project at dillman wrote that project began this year. It will.

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Take another half a year beyond the end of.

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2021 to complete it, we will also complete the replacement of.

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The sewer capacity expansion for the uh in support of the new iu.

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Dormitories and other growth north of 17th street, you.

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May recall, we uh brought the engineering contract.

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To the board for that project a few weeks ago,.

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That's approximately two million dollar project and iu will contribute 41.

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Percent of the project costs and also uh on the sewer works. We will.

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Continue our sewer lining program uh hoping to line three to four miles of.

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Pipe and make other improvements to the collection system.

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For about four hundred thousand dollars in 2021.

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But the big, the the major modernization project has.

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An important uh impact on our carving footprint.

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Because everything we do in that project is going to improve our.

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Overall, operational efficiency, especially when it comes to aeration and.

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The and the way we the way we move air through the plant, so it's going to be a real benefit to us. There, the storm water utility.

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By the end of 2021, we'll implement our strategies for the stormwater.

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Housekeeping, according to the item standards, we do plan to continue the.

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Residential storm water grant program uh with a 75 000 budget. That's the same.

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Amount as this year, we also anticipate completion of.

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50 percent of the jordan river tunnel uh segment replacement project by the.

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End of 2021, uh that's expected to cost around 12.

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Million dollars overall, it's a two-year project and we hope it.

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Begins late this year also in 2021 we'll begin a project to.

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Dredge the stormwater detention facilities at miller showers park. uh It has not been dredged since it was.

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Constructed and it's filling up with with sediment, so we're going to need to.

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Clean it out at just a few other highlights on our.

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Budget uh we plan to increase the customer assistance program.

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uh To 50 000, uh with the expectation that we.

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uh May have additional demand on that program as the pandemic unfolds.

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We, as I mentioned, we have their major investments, we're making at the dillman.

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Road plant and the jordan river tunnel, so these are the three big uh items in terms of budgets for 2021.

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uh Overall, our budget, our budget summary- is that uh we're anticipating a revenue.

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uh Decrease of around seven percent- that's.

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um Manifest at seven and three quarters percent.

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On the sewer side, more like six suns, uh sorry on the water side,.

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More like six on the sewer side and and three or so on the storm water side.

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This is all related to metered use, primarily.

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The way this will all manifest out, I will be.

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That, primarily, we will reduce the amount of money that's available.

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For extensions and replacements, so when you look at the waterworks.

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Budget uh budget change there's about a one.

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Percent chance uh increase in personnel services.

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Anticipated a lot of that's because the union contract increase.

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For union employees, but that also can be some staffing.

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Changes for selling less water, we use less supplies so we'll be.

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Spending a little bit less there as well and.

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The enr, as I pointed out a moment ago, we anticipate, would be significantly.

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Reduced uh in order to uh to balance everything.

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Out so um I know one of our board members is.

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New to this, so I'll just explain what we do when we.

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Budget is we budget every anticipated dollar of.

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Revenue we base the 100s for personnel, the 200s.

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For supplies and the 300s for other services other.

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Than enr and the water sinking fund, that's the.

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The principle and interest on our bonds, those.

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Those dollars are all uh budgeted based on.

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uh Anticipated expenditures, whatever is left.

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Gets budgeted as enr uh and that's the money that we have available for doing.

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Various projects in improving plant improvements and so.

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Forth- and you will see here uh on the 400s- the.

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Water sinking fund, you see the reduction there. That is related.

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To the refunding of the of the water bonds that the board did earlier, this.

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Year, so all in all, uh this turns we're.

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Anticipating around seven and three quarters percent change uh downward in our overall water budget.

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Sewer uh it's a similar, uh similar story with a reduction of around six and a.

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Quarter percent: uh that's because some of our sewer customers are not.

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Also, water customers, so um some of the customers.

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uh The uh since they're, not water customers, we don't anticipate.

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uh As much reduction over there but uh you'll see again.

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uh Reduction then anticipated in our spending.

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uh In the coming year, based on the 2020 number.

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The storm water utility we're expecting a.

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Decrease overall of about 3.45 percent uh and it's distributed as shown here in.

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The table this budget is a much smaller budget than the other budgets, but the the big expenditures that's going to be.

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Coming up uh will be the uh uh the change in our sinking fund.

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For the the uh the bonding for the.

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Jordan, river tunnel.

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So I'll just conclude by saying the the detroit this budget.

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uh Request reflexes reflects increases and also decreases that.

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Align with the goals of improving our water quality.

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Completing smart meters, replacing water mains.

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Reinvigorating the stormwater program and modernizing a bunch of our.

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Internal processes thanks a lot for listening and.

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I'm happy to answer any questions and I also want to thank.

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The folks who contributed imagery that that.

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Showed up in here uh don don adams, dave, askins and.

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All the city staff who uh who make wonderful.

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Images and photographs of the various things we do.

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I'd also like to thank latrina harrington.

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And laura pettit and holly mclaughlin for.

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All the massive amount of help they always put into.

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Preparing this presentation, I'm fortunate to be.

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The one who gets to present it so thank you all.

D

And I welcome any questions you have. Thank you so much vic. um That was a.

A

Great presentation and thanks to everyone who contributed to it.

A

um Let's see, I see jason, you have a question or comment.

K

Yes, so a couple of things um so uh vic it was. Maybe my memory fails.

K

Me and if some other board members who were have been around for a while.

K

Helped refresh me, it come from this administration, but in one of the prior.

K

Administrations I could have sworn that we were told that there were no lead service lines that were left in the.

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System so well, I certainly never said it.

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Our practice is that when we encounter one, we remove it and replace it.

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uh But uh there are some out there, uh not as many as their one sport but.

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This year will be uh in the coming year will be undergoing.

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A really aggressive search to find any that are left. Okay, so I mean anyone on the spot, but.

K

Jeff, do you remember hearing that at some point.

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um When so, we, when you say uh service lines, you're talking about lines that.

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City of bloomington owns not from the meter to the house.

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That's what's what we mean it's the line that goes from the main.

D

To the meter yeah no, I was not aware at all that we had led.

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K

Yeah so I mean we don't have to get into that. You know now, but I'd be interested.

K

To have more information, because I seem to recall explicitly being told at.

K

One point years ago that we didn't have any in our system. Well I'll, definitely look into that. I.

G

Have the same recollection, I'm surprised well again, my memory is.

G

The same as yours, jason, but but yeah, I'm surprised to hear that.

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And, and certainly you know know that it's a priority and.

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And want it to be a priority to to um you know ahead of other some other.

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Projects, I would think, given the health risks to address those.

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Those lines as we find out about them yeah. I understand that we may not know.

G

About all of them, but as soon as we would find out about them, it seems to me that would be a very high priority for.

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Addressing well, we do when we encounter one in the.

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Field, we do replace it so then. The second question I have was.

K

About the customer assistance program, so um a couple questions on that is that.

K

Is that 50 000, funded by the rate payers, or is that.

K

Source of funding from some other uh city fund, it's funded from.

D

The ratepayers okay, and so does the iurc.

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Regulate how much we can we can allocate to.

K

A fund like that the iurc is, uh of course, aware of the program.

D

And uh they have not we're not funding it. We've never funded at a level.

D

That they raised any issues, a lot of utilities do have similar kinds of.

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Programs uh to to help people who are unable to.

D

Pay because of their economic circumstances right well,.

K

I was looking um while we were on the call here. I've got my duke bill and I'm looking at it, and they have a line there for uh ad here to help others contribution to the helping hand program.

K

So I mean one thing that we might might think about is maybe voluntary individual participation like that.

K

um I'd also be interested to know if, in fact, the iurc does put any.

K

On how much, how much of that we can we can, we can fund with ratepayer money.

K

And then the last part of that question um on the.

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Fund is how do we determine need you know? What's the priority, is it.

K

You know what does someone have to do to qualify.

K

For that fund, well, we don't determine it.

D

What what happened is that the, when this program was established, the board set.

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Set uh guidelines, I don't remember the details of them: laura might.

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But it's all administered by the south central community action program.

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So basically, if someone contacts us, we have them contact scaf, uh scap,.

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Reviews does all the uh review and then.

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When they approve it, we pay the bill. Basically,.

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You one thing you can't do is get customer assistance, money.

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After you're disconnected so we very we're very aggressive at working with.

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Customers who get into the rears to help them.

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Get on a payment plan or reach out to scaf before they get disconnected now.

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Obviously, right now we're not doing these connections at all, but under normal circumstances um you know we.

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We try to make sure everybody gets these things settled before.

D

They get a disconnect notice. Okay, thank you.

A

Any other questions or comments.

A

Oh jeff yep um so easy question. First, the stormwater.

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Budget, why would it be reduced if it's, you know.

G

Fee based and property based laura um it.

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Is based on the number of active accounts we have.

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um And so we're just seeing less accounts.

G

Oh so there are um accounts that are being.

G

Shut off due to the the um the health um right emergency, yeah, okay,.

G

Understood that makes sense now, um okay, so for the replacements.

G

2.5 miles of water mains, three to four miles of sewer lines and I'm wondering.

G

You know bigger picture uh given the age and the life expectancy, and I know you.

G

Guys have formulas to look at this.

G

Are we budgeting enough to keep up with uh the maintenance that needs to occur.

G

And if not, um are we considering that, in these rate,.

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Increases as we move forward and do we have a plan.

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To catch up, if we are behind well, that's a great.

D

Question um and and I've I've asked the same.

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Question a number of times myself, um the way uh the the 1.7 million.

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Dollars for water mean replacement was established in 2016, it was. uh uh It was in the when I first came here. That was.

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The amount that was in that first rate case that we did.

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uh In 2016., so that all started just days after I got here and uh that.

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Those numbers had already been arrived at at that point.

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um We have been doing analysis, you know we, we didn't know what 1.7.

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Million dollars would do uh at the time because uh in bloomington.

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Replacing water mains is really expensive, they have to be buried. Four.

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Feet deep, um you can they're very few places.

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In the city of bloomington, where you can go four feet without hitting rock.

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So, depending on how much rock the cost of replacing a mile of pipe.

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An awful lot of it depends on how much rock you have to break.

D

To lay that that mile of pipe, because when you put in a new water main, you.

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Can't just put it where the old one was, because you have to keep that one in.

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Service until the new main is in place, so what you usually end up doing is.

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Laying a new main adjacent to the one that you're replacing and then.

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uh And then disabling the old one, so you don't have.

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It's it makes it more expensive than it might have been had we been in.

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Indianapolis or martinsville, or something like that so.

D

What we've learned to experience is we can, we can replace about two and a half.

D

Miles per year, um that turns out to be a replacement schedule of.

D

400 years, something like that right, so it's not fast enough.

D

These pipes are expected to last 50 to 100 years, typically.

D

So um we've been doing some analysis. uh Engineering's done a lot of work on.

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This in the last year to look at what it would cost.

D

How many miles of pipe would it cost to replace.

D

um Over the next, the next rate cycle to reduce um the amount of.

D

Of highly susceptible or pipes that are highly susceptible to.

D

Main breaks in the next four to ten years and that's.

D

They've count they've come up with new numbers and it's round numbers brad help me here. What was the uh the.

D

Number we came up with, but when we do the rate case, we put a larger.

D

Number was it 5.3 or or something? I think it was something.

D

Like that, in the number in the the justification.

D

For the rate case that we'll be bringing in the spring so.

D

And that's specifically, guided towards prioritizing sections of our.

D

Distribution system that are most at risk of having.

D

Significant main breaks at this time.

G

So I I like that approach, but, but still it sounds like we need to do more and I.

G

Remember this I asked the same question four years ago whenever it was and and.

G

The answer was no, it's not enough, and, and um it would be, we need to get to.

G

That point you know and um whatever the costs are.

G

Because it's going to cost a lot more, if we don't do it.

G

So- and I know we can't lay a giant increase at one time, but we've gone to.

G

This new two-year incremental increase and we.

G

Should uh should try to factor that in as soon as we can yeah and we're working as fast as we can to do that.

D

The same way with sewer lining and and sewer replacements, we've.

D

I've been doing more analysis of where we have the biggest issues with.

D

Ini and and with an eye towards all of that, so.

D

It's it's all in there. Thank you.

A

Hey vic, um uh following up on on uh just comments.

A

If, if our federal government were to set a priority on investing in.

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Water utilities and and infrastructure replacement and upgrades.

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um At a level that we really need across the nation.

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um Because lots of municipalities are dealing with what we are as well.

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um And let's say: suddenly, there was enough money to.

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Really, you know uh replace the number of miles of pipes.

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Water mains that we need to um uh do, we have the the crews to be able to.

A

To keep up with that, um would that be an expansion of.

A

Of staff to to do it, it would either be depending on the period of time, if it.

D

Were a program that wound up and went on for 20 years and then wound down, I think.

D

You could manage and administer the growth of the crews.

D

Of staff and and the eventual elimination of that.

D

Staff, I think you could manage that simply by attrition, if it.

D

Were a long enough period of time if it were a five-year period, I think.

D

We'd be hiring contractors so we'd, but we may bring contractors in and have.

D

Them housed in our facilities, for example, and.

D

Then we can accelerate it and we have done.

D

Some of the bigger projects that we've done uh for water main replacement, have actually been done by outside.

D

Contractors, um one notable one was the the north's.

D

Old state, road, 37 project and basically the approach.

D

We've been taking is if it's, if the project is happening in a say, a lesser.

D

Traveled portion of town, where there's not a lot of traffic and.

D

The logistics of just executing the project are are.

D

Conducive uh to it, we'll do that one in-house.

D

So eastern heights, we did that way and a number of other smaller ones are done.

D

That way, the problem is that our crews have to be.

D

Available to do things like water, main breaks and- and you know, go out and clean inlets when it's getting ready to rain and.

D

Those kinds of things so, um if we're doing a project.

D

Like on arlington road, we did a project on arlington, road or the old.

D

North state road 37 project, uh in a case like that, you know the the.

D

Logistical issues that would come up when everybody got off the job and drove.

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Away to go repair, a main break uh that would.

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Certainly not be a good situation, so projects that uh have.

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A significant impact on traffic or other issues that.

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That that we don't want to have be in a situation where people can't walk off.

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The project for a time uh those we have those are the ones we contract.

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Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you so much.

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All right uh any other questions or comments.

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Not seeing any okay, thank you again for that great presentation.

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um And then next up are the uh oh wait. um I think we needed to hear.

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From the finance committee about any.

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Recommendations on the budget is that right, that's right.

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Yes, so the finance committee met today, sherman, burnham and par mentor and.

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We were updated to any changes since the last presentation.

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And we voted after the presentation to um recommend to the whole board.

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Approval of the 2021 budget- okay, thank you, and so.

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At this point, do we need to uh take a vote on.

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Approval and recommendation uh to take this then to council.

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So uh is there a motion to approve the uh budget as presented.

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Tonight and recommend that to city council so.

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Move second and latrina: can you please call.

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The roll chairman, yes yannick,.

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Yes, burnham, yes, eamonn, yes, sappler.

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Yes, prime minister, yes all right, so the budget is presented as.

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Approved at this end, thank you very much and next up we have.

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Staff reports uh so rick hi. It's me again.

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um uh Just uh wanted to talk uh during staff reports.

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uh Gene requested and I had planned on it uh ahead of time as well.

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To talk about uh the covid cases that we've had.

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uh At cbu uh and what we've been doing, uh some of you may know, I just came back.

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Today, from vacation um on the sunday after I left, which was.

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Two weeks ago yesterday, um I got a call that we'd had a positive.

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Test uh in tnd- and you may recall about three.

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Weeks ago we had a positive test uh amongst the.

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Meteor crew, with a meter reader uh after that test uh uh contracts, were.

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Traced but uh we didn't have any other anything.

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Related to to that particular case come up um the.

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Case that uh was an issue that we learned of.

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Two weeks ago yesterday uh uh was a person in the tnd.

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Division of we uh contract tracing was conducted and a.

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Number of other people were tested. uh Four days later, we learned that two.

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uh People who were on that same crew had also tested positive. All this was in.

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The paper uh they had also tested positive.

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Before that, second set of tests came back uh well right after we learned.

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Of the of the first case in tnd two weeks ago,.

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Yesterday uh we reinstated the operational.

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Practices and tnd that we've been using back in march.

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uh Where uh uh brandon divided uh everything into two crews, uh two.

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Ships one comes in at 6 30 and leaves at 2 30. The other comes in at.

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7 30 and leaves at 3 30. uh so to re that cuts the population in.

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The garage in half at any given time and it.

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Additionally um directed the uh line, people and the.

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Assistant superintendents, to be the only ones who actually come into the garage everyone else meets either outside or at.

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The job site, so this is to try and maximize.

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Distancing inside the garage we got the second.

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Set of results the following thursday. At that point, we uh decided.

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To uh reinstate those march practices for the rest of cbu and ask.

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All employees who could work from home to do so uh to.

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Make sure that we didn't? Because we didn't want to get in a situation where.

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We had an outbreak breaking out throughout the building and we wanted to.

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Monitor what happened with those additional tests?

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uh Fortunately, we haven't had another positive test in tnd.

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uh Either with that crew, with one of the other crews since then, which is great.

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News um last week we did have an additional case.

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That was again in meter service. We had the tracking was done and up to now,.

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We've learned of no other uh issues with that one. So.

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We're pretty confident that we didn't end up with a community.

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Transmission inside the garage or inside the service center.

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And we've been very, very cautious about this. um Brandon has.

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Been working with his crews and tom's from working with the folks in the plants to make sure that everyone is practicing social distancing.

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uh Wearing masks when they need to, I can vouch for at least two of the.

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Crews that I went out and visited with this morning that all had.

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uh They all had masks or the gators up over their faces when they were working.

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In proximity to one another and we're being.

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As assertive about this, as we possibly can.

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And you know we're we're proud of our employees that are out there doing it.

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Right and setting a good example for the community, and we will continue to encourage proper, distancing and.

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Proper behavior and proper response to the covet.

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Pandemic so we're doing we're doing what we can and.

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We're always open to do suggestions and we monitor this every day. Thank you, vic any questions or comments.

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um I am wondering um I is there any discussion and I don't even.

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Know if, at this point, our state um ordination.

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Has the capacity to do it, but is there any discussion of regular routine testing of cbu.

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Employees to catch any asymptomatic cases.

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That folks might not be aware of, I know the iu plan for students returning is to.

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Have all students and and staff and faculty tested on a.

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Regular basis there just isn't that much capacity in.

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Monroe county, we do have a number of employees who have gone and.

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Had precautionary tests, for example, uh they were going to have.

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Grandparents coming to visit grand kids and those kinds of things.

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A lot of people have been taking advantage of testing for that.

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Some people have uh have gone through the testing program because they.

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Were just wanting to be sure for, for whatever.

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Reason or maybe they were just concerned about it, but the capacity.

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For testing in monroe county, just isn't that large and.

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And by the time you get a result back, it might be a week or more.

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More before you know so at this point we don't have a plan to do that.

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uh The city really hasn't discussed uh any kind of.

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You know blanket testing programs with you know.

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With all of our employees, and even if we did, I don't know that we could execute.

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It at the you know at a level that would be sufficient to really to really track it. Yeah. That's.

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Just so frustrating because that's like one of the keys to you know preventing.

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um uh Community transmission within an employment site.

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And then within the broader community, and- and I know that.

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um Iu is is come up with uh some initially some contracts with.

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Other companies to do testing for all of their.

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Students and and staff and then they're developing their own testing.

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Regimen in their labs- and so I don't know if there are any.

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Municipalities or employers that are um investigating contracts.

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With particular labs to be able to do kind of their own testing that way.

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um I don't either one thing we are discussing uh board member bannock.

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Brought this to my attention some weeks ago, but we are continuing to.

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Investigate uh the potential for sampling of.

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Wastewater, we have actually taken some wastewater samples and we're.

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Sending them off to a lab, we uh are investigating the.

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The prospects for that as a as a community-wide.

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Kind of screening uh regimen, uh but we are, we aren't there yet.

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Okay, thank you and um just a a particular question uh in terms of.

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Crews that are going out uh to work- and I know early on there- was some.

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Discussion about sharing vehicles and how that should be.

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Handled in terms of minimizing chance of passing.

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The virus between crew members in the same truck.

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um How is that being handled at this point uh if two people are in the same.

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Vehicle they're masked, okay, okay, great.

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Any other questions concerns. Okay, that's all right! Thank you. That's.

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It all right thanks so much vic for that update um and I hope everybody is recovering fine and.

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um Being okay, so, um let's see.

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Oh holly, I forgot to uh warn the public that uh if there were.

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Any petitions and communications uh to put those into.

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Our facebook live comments section. um Are there any uh petitions and.

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Communications from the public, um no questions via facebook.

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Okay, thank you and next meeting. I will remember to give that reminder a little.

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Earlier, um okay, uh then, I.

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Is there a motion for us to adjourn for tonight so move.

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All right, we are adjourned thanks, so much everyone.

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Have a good evening.

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